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We bring trouble on ourselves, as surely as sparks fly up from a fire. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/job/5-7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/job/5-7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/job/5-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/1.htm">Job</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/5-6.htm" title="Job 5:6">◄</a> Job 5:7 <a href="../job/5-8.htm" title="Job 5:8">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/job/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/job/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />No indeed! We bring trouble on ourselves, as surely as sparks fly up from a fire. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />but human beings are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/job/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />it's all part of life, like sparks shooting skyward. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Human beings beget mischief as sparks fly upward. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/job/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.</p><p class="hdg">man.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/14-1.htm">Job 14:1</a> Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/3-17.htm">Genesis 3:17-19</a> And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/90-8.htm">Psalm 90:8,9</a> Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/10-13.htm">1 Corinthians 10:13</a> Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.</p><p class="hdg">trouble.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/1-8.htm">Ecclesiastes 1:8</a> All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2-22.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:22</a> For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/5-15.htm">Ecclesiastes 5:15-17</a> As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour. . . . </p><p class="hdg">sparks fly upward.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/job/5.htm">Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl">Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.</span><span class="reftext">8</span>Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/3-17.htm">Genesis 3:17</a></span><br />And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/7-1.htm">Job 7:1</a></span><br />The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/14-1.htm">Job 14:1</a></span><br />Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2-23.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:23</a></span><br />All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/20-18.htm">Jeremiah 20:18</a></span><br />Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/3-16.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/job/3-3.htm">Born</a> <a href="/esther/7-7.htm">Fate</a> <a href="/job/1-16.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-15.htm">Flames</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-11.htm">Fly</a> <a href="/job/3-4.htm">High</a> <a href="/job/5-6.htm">Misery</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-11.htm">Sparks</a> <a href="/job/5-2.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/job/5-6.htm">Trouble</a> <a href="/ezra/3-8.htm">Upward</a> <a 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